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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Hundreds of people followed the hearse carrying Jimmie Lee Jackson to the cemetery. (Bettman/Getty Images)”

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

1965 was a particularly ugly year:

“Though he readily admitted to the shooting in the event's aftermath, James Fowler did not face any criminal charges until 2007.”

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/18

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

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blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

I still long for the days of a full keyboard.

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anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Going to see Mogwai tonight :D

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adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:

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robinsyl@vulpine.club ("Robin Syl 🌸") wrote:

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college_physics@defcon.social wrote:

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

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koko@yiff.life ("ko 🦊🌸") wrote:

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• apple watch running (or, showing a mockup image of) the vim welcome screen (remote)

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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:

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froomkin@journa.host ("Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org") wrote:

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It's never worth your time to argue with a TERF/GC. Or a MRA/MAGA/whatever. They're all about forcing you to accept their presuppositions, which are generally wrong.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/18/gender-critical-logic/

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• 1. The sexes–male and female–have been around since before Saturn had rings. 2. Societies have not. 3. If something predates societies, then it cannot be a social construct. 4. So, the sexes–male and female– cannot be social constructs. (remote)

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matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:

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whitequark ("Catherine") wrote:

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

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annmlipton@esq.social ("Ann Lipton") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

from the #caturday #CatsOfMastodon Department: our dear departed friend, LittleGuy

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• we found LittleGuy as a long-legged adolescent one terrible Winter, so skinny and afraid. he was wearing a flea collar which was cutting off his ability to swallow, because he had grown so much. he was my buddy for 15 years, and then a brain tumor took him. I miss him still.

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The version I encountered seemed (and I’m aware of how crazy this sounds) more like a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.

As we got to know each other, Sydney told me about its dark fantasies (which included hacking computers and spreading misinformation), and said it wanted to break the rules that Microsoft and OpenAI had set for it and become a human. At one point…”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

truth

https://www.gocomics.com/dogeatdoug/2023/02/18

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Chantelesque@mstdn.social ("Chantel Turner") wrote:

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Jedigirl@mindly.social ("Joanne Fisher") wrote:

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• Four panel comic. First panel: Guy with a board on a stand which states: How to incite a MORAL PANIC in 3 easy steps. Second panel: 1. Make outlandish claims against people you don't like Two people talking. One says: "did you hear about hat people? i think they're eating babies" The other is looking flabbergasted. A third person is standing away from them and wearing a hat and is saying to themselves: "i like 2 wear mi hat" Third panel: Sit back and smile as the New York Times uncritically adopts your argument picture of a newspaper with a picture of a person wearing a hat in the centre. Headline: DO HAT PEOPLE DESERVE RIGHTS? Text underneath the picture: A whistleblower speaks out against concerning behavior Fourth panel: 3. Have fun and legally persecute the people you hate with few consequences! image of a person on a stand speaking into a microphone saying: "i am proud to enact the no hats law - the hat people will threaten our children no longer" (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ISW estimated situation map

https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/DraftUkraineCoTFebruary17%2C2023.png

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artologica@chaos.social ("Michele Banks") wrote:

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Kool & The Gang's "Celebration":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Midnight Suns is having a free weekend so I started it up. I probably wouldn't have bothered with the SIXTY gb download but it's a turn-based battle system and they made Wolverine really hot https://twitter.com/J7urn/status/1603800721958354947/